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Lord, Take Me Deeper in Your Word
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ome time ago I went into the hospital for emergency surgery. I stayed there about two weeks and then spent six weeks at home with a nurse. I had eight months of recovery after that. It was over a year before I was even close to being back to normal. (I’ll give you more details about this in a later chapter.) During that time in the hospital I was too sick and weak and in too much pain to read the Word. I was hooked up to a machine with tubes running in and out of my body, so I couldn’t sit up or turn over. That meant holding a heavy Bible was out of the question. Because I needed round-theclock care, my sister organized my husband, children, and close friends to spend speci?c times with me. Each person took a three-hour shift on different days, except for my daughter, who took a twelve-hour shift from 8:00 every night until 8:00 in the morning. This was extremely dif?cult for her because she was in college at the time and had to be up with me every couple hours at night and then go to school all day. Besides everything else these loving people
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